Ivan Mykolaichuk is a Ukrainian movie actor (34 roles), director of two movies and screen writer of nine movies. He was born in a family of peasants in a village of Chortoryia in Western Ukraine. Ivan Mukolaichuk finished the Chernivtsi Music College and the theater-studio of Olha Kobylianska Chernivtsi Music-Drama Theater. Graduated from Ukrainian National University of Theater, Film and TV of Karpenko-Kary in 1965. He became famous after he had played the leading role in Les chevaux de feu (1965).